Now that's a car, what an absolute beauty, and fantastically preserved too. The antithesis of today's SUVs and trucks, to have one with an original working tube radio must be rare indeed. Interesting radio discussion about 'Threads' - it's getting a lot of attention right now, probably because it's the 40 year anniversary of it being broadcast on BBC TV here in the UK. Definitely not a film for the faint of heart, but probably the most accurate depiction to date of the horror of nuclear war, and a filmmaking masterclass in how to pack a punch with a tiny budget.
I wish I could hit the like button about 10K times! Great to see crusin' around in an old beauty like that! Edit: I'm so friggin jealous! That is an absolutely beautiful machine.
Very cool and everyone looks. Just like when a cybertruck goes by but in that case people are pointing and laughing. In a classic they are smiling and waving.
WOW!! What a beauty - and the Engine a Straight 8 - I would have to say it's as quiet as a Rolls Royce if not even quieter. That is the way all car engines should be. The transmission it even sounds like the way it was on the old radio programs like the Green Hornet and the kind.... and I thought it was a sound effect on the radio shows - but in real life COOL!!! Awww Dave thank you so much for sharing - that was a real Real treat.
My cousin had a bunch of collector cars. A model T, 49 Oldsmobile convertible, 56 chevy Belair, 3 classic corvetta, a 68 cougar. I got to drive several of them. Had no kids to pass them on to when he died he gave them all to his buddies in the old car club. Non or his cousins, nephews neices or any family members got any of them. I would have loved the 68 cougar as that had been my aunts and she left it to him because he was a car collector. It had a 351 Windsor with Holly 4 b double pumper. That thing would lay rubber for about a mile. He had 12 and they all went to his collector friends whom promptly auctioned them off for top dollar. Same with his house. Nobody in family got a dime.
You were really driving with one of these cars using all of your senses you were hearing and feeling the car and road. It truly is a lost art. My dad used to tell the good drivers from bad when stopped on a hill going up when the light changed a good driver hardly let the car roll backwards when starting out a bad driver would have the car roll backwards till the car was in gear and off the clutch. That must've cost a fortune to drive in Switzerland,nice car love the big toothy grills on those old roadmonsters.
Wow that car is amazing so quiet some modern new cars aren't that quiet and it's beautiful what was the far left pedel on the floor is a foot operated parking break as you say there where we call them handbrake here in UK, great video again David, thanks for sharing again have a great day from UK 0130am here
Can you imagine owning a 1948 Buick in post war Switzerland, that would've been an enormous car size-wise over there. At the time most European motorists would've been glad to be able to get something like Citroen 2CV or a Fiat 1100.
You have to remember it is stored in a climate controlled environment and it gets very little use. Probably under 500km per year. This is a car you take out on a Sunday in perfect weather to cruise down to the dairy queen, or drive in a parade. Its pampered hence why it has lasted so long. It only has about 133,000 km on it. Thats 83,000 miles. Thats nothing. My sons Buick has 283,000 km on it and it ribs beautiful. Its an 05. My 12 volt has 212,000 on it now. So when you put it in perspective this car is like new.
I just watched a video where a woman had one of the brand new cars. She maneuvered the car into a position to where she couldn't close the door. Because of all the electronics and safety features she couldn't start the car or throw it into neutral with the door open. The thing was dead in the water. They had to call a tow truck.
Cool car. From what I've read it seemed like those old 3-speed transmissions were ratio'd to get you into 3rd asap when accelerating from a stop lol, really short 1st and 2nd gears, and a really tall 3rd gear.
I remember the old zephyr my mother had when I was a kid was that way. I learned how to operate the transmission about 10 years before I could drive. I would sit next to her and when she pressed the clutch I operated the gear box. Did the same in my dads merc. They actually put a pillow between the seats so I could sit there and work the gears. Learned to drive out in farm fields when I was 12 out at my uncles farm. Drove up and down the access road from the house to the barn. Fun times. So the day I was legal to drive I could have done the road test.
She is a beauty! Classy as anything. Must of been great going for a run in it. Is that the same car that was used in back to the future? Where Mcfly decked Biff?
I just removed it this month when I was heading on my road trip as I needed the mount to attach another camera however during the few months I ran it. It was flawless and will be going in my car permanently should my current camera fail. It checked all the boxes for performance.
Me I was just a kid. I learned how to change gears sitting between my parents in the front seat. Dad would push in the clutch and give me the nod to change the gears. I remember first had no synchro so had to be at a complete stop or it would grind. Then he got the 70 merc with the 4 on the floor. I had a pillow to sit on so I could work the gears. I fully learned to drive when I was perhaps 12 or so. My sister had a horse and I was always dragged to the stable every day while she rode and cleaned up. So boring. I started driving the car around the property. The stable was owned by family friends. Used to drive up and down driveway to back field and back. The day I turned 16 I was ready for my road test.
Taught my daughter to drive when she was 15 on back road. She too went and got her learner permit the day she turned 16. As did my son but he was a lazy ass and didn't want to learn to drive. Let his permit expire and started over at 23. He can drive now at 24 but can't take his first road test till November. Then has to wait 2 more years to get his full license. I give him a bad time as he should have done this 8 years ago. He and all his dumb friends figured they didn't need a car or license and that he could just Uber where he needed to go. Would cost him about 60 a day to get to and from work on Uber. Gas about 8 a day.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but under any circumstance, would it be worth it to buy a 27” CRT through eBay and delivered via ground shipping like FedEx? Have you ever attempted to receive a larger 27” set this way? What was the experience like?
About 25 years ago I sold a 15" Conrac professional monitor. I got a whopping 50.00 for it which is what I paid for 3 of them (I still have 2 open frame models, the one I sold had the metal cabinet as it was a studio monitor that weighed about 80lbs. I bought a crate and the buyer paid for the shipping crate and shipping coats which wee about 250 because of the size and weight. It went from Vancouver to PEI by ground. When it arrived the picture tube was just shards of glass. The guy wanted a refund for everything. I told him to file a claim with the carrier as I had it professionally packed by ups. So no I wouldn't trust anything heavy and fragile like a CRT to be shipped. Infact if I were to buy something like that myself I would go pick it up personally and see it operating before I took possession but thats just me. I have had things sent in for repair and I have video evidence of the condition received and sent only to find they get damaged on the way back. Doesn't happen often, but it can and does happen.
@@12voltvids still heaps down here in Australia. Tasmania's got 6 and 1s part chat part music and in Vic & NSW there heaps more, even when i scroll the AM during the night i can pick up the weak signals but can mostly get the regional Victorian stations and there's music back to back.
OMG on the radio, ONLY on RADIO! "For those going to have a watch of Threads tonight, do you have any advice"? "Well, er, you might want to have had a glass or two of beer to help you through it" Nah, WINE! LOTS OF WINE! Trust me, I've watched it. Get so drunk you dont care, its the only way you'll make it through.
Absolutely, it's something of a cult classic here in the UK, but is definitely not for the faint of heart. I'm a bit of a nuke / cold war geek, so have been following the 40th anniversary closely and will definitely be watching when it's shown on BBC4 next month.
@@12voltvids It is in immaculate condition with lots of options, $40-50k is what they go for around me down in the US, if you could find one for sale. But no doubt Al's Buick is very rare. I just really like the simplicity of older vehicles. I dont need all those automated features telling me how to drive and high costs for repairs/parts.
@@12voltvids I the car world, for a collector, $60k isnt bad. And I think you could drastically improve that 5 mpg with an engine rebuild and a few upgrades. Though something like this Buick I wouldnt want to drive daily but you could.
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If you know Spanish or if you are a particularly pious individual, then AM radio is a veritable treasure trove!
Now that's a car, what an absolute beauty, and fantastically preserved too. The antithesis of today's SUVs and trucks, to have one with an original working tube radio must be rare indeed.
Interesting radio discussion about 'Threads' - it's getting a lot of attention right now, probably because it's the 40 year anniversary of it being broadcast on BBC TV here in the UK.
Definitely not a film for the faint of heart, but probably the most accurate depiction to date of the horror of nuclear war, and a filmmaking masterclass in how to pack a punch with a tiny budget.
What an awesome ride.
I'd like to see something made today last almost 80 years.
Good luck.
I wish I could hit the like button about 10K times! Great to see crusin' around in an old beauty like that! Edit: I'm so friggin jealous! That is an absolutely beautiful machine.
Very cool and everyone looks. Just like when a cybertruck goes by but in that case people are pointing and laughing. In a classic they are smiling and waving.
Now that's a real car made from the good stuff. No computers, modules or high-tech trash.😊
Look how decorative that radio is. Wow. Elegance all around.
WOW!! What a beauty - and the Engine a Straight 8 - I would have to say it's as quiet as a Rolls Royce if not even quieter. That is the way all car engines should be.
The transmission it even sounds like the way it was on the old radio programs like the Green Hornet and the kind.... and I thought it was a sound effect on the radio shows - but in real life COOL!!! Awww Dave thank you so much for sharing - that was a real Real treat.
You can't even hear the engine running. The vibrator in the radio hums louder.
@@12voltvids Because it doesn't know the words??!!😆🤣
Now that was different but enjoyable. Really nice car. Glad you got to ride in it and let us see it.
My cousin had a bunch of collector cars. A model T, 49 Oldsmobile convertible, 56 chevy Belair, 3 classic corvetta, a 68 cougar. I got to drive several of them. Had no kids to pass them on to when he died he gave them all to his buddies in the old car club. Non or his cousins, nephews neices or any family members got any of them. I would have loved the 68 cougar as that had been my aunts and she left it to him because he was a car collector. It had a 351 Windsor with Holly 4 b double pumper. That thing would lay rubber for about a mile. He had 12 and they all went to his collector friends whom promptly auctioned them off for top dollar. Same with his house. Nobody in family got a dime.
@@12voltvids Too bad you were related to him and not just a good friend. Could have had a classic.
You were really driving with one of these cars using all of your senses you were hearing and feeling the car and road. It truly is a lost art. My dad used to tell the good drivers from bad when stopped on a hill going up when the light changed a good driver hardly let the car roll backwards when starting out a bad driver would have the car roll backwards till the car was in gear and off the clutch. That must've cost a fortune to drive in Switzerland,nice car love the big toothy grills on those old roadmonsters.
Lovely old Buick! That is a real car!
Wow that car is amazing so quiet some modern new cars aren't that quiet and it's beautiful what was the far left pedel on the floor is a foot operated parking break as you say there where we call them handbrake here in UK, great video again David, thanks for sharing again have a great day from UK 0130am here
Yup the park brake
@@12voltvids thought it was I had a modern car and that was the same release it under dash board thanks for that 👌👍
I bet ya felt like a teenager again. Very nice car. Very nice friend he looks a little like you.
Nice set of wheels for sure! Almost as quiet as my Kia eNero!
My old volt is quieter. The newer one has the space ship sound to alert pedestrians.
Can you imagine owning a 1948 Buick in post war Switzerland, that would've been an enormous car size-wise over there. At the time most European motorists would've been glad to be able to get something like Citroen 2CV or a Fiat 1100.
Nice to see something so old that still runs like a top
You have to remember it is stored in a climate controlled environment and it gets very little use. Probably under 500km per year. This is a car you take out on a Sunday in perfect weather to cruise down to the dairy queen, or drive in a parade. Its pampered hence why it has lasted so long. It only has about 133,000 km on it. Thats 83,000 miles. Thats nothing. My sons Buick has 283,000 km on it and it ribs beautiful. Its an 05. My 12 volt has 212,000 on it now. So when you put it in perspective this car is like new.
I didn't know those were OHV engines!? I just automatically assumed those were Flatheads.
Super cool.
Gorgeous car. I'll take a car without all the electronics in it. Today, cars are computers on wheels.
If you stuck a match and held at tail pipe you have just created a flame thrower.
I just watched a video where a woman had one of the brand new cars.
She maneuvered the car into a position to where she couldn't close the door. Because of all the electronics and safety features she couldn't start the car or throw it into neutral with the door open. The thing was dead in the water. They had to call a tow truck.
Wow! what a car!!!
wow what a fantastic machine!
Beautiful car!
It sure is!
What a lovely car.🤩
What a beauty!
P. S.I have either a 1948 or 1949 yellow die-cast model of a Buick, 1/24 scale. I'd prefer to have the real full scale car.
Cool car. From what I've read it seemed like those old 3-speed transmissions were ratio'd to get you into 3rd asap when accelerating from a stop lol, really short 1st and 2nd gears, and a really tall 3rd gear.
I remember the old zephyr my mother had when I was a kid was that way. I learned how to operate the transmission about 10 years before I could drive. I would sit next to her and when she pressed the clutch I operated the gear box. Did the same in my dads merc. They actually put a pillow between the seats so I could sit there and work the gears. Learned to drive out in farm fields when I was 12 out at my uncles farm. Drove up and down the access road from the house to the barn. Fun times. So the day I was legal to drive I could have done the road test.
Nice
She is a beauty! Classy as anything. Must of been great going for a run in it.
Is that the same car that was used in back to the future? Where Mcfly decked Biff?
Did not know how to get ahold of you to ask this: Can you update about the PELSEE P1 Duo Dashcam. Are you still using it and Happy with it still?
I just removed it this month when I was heading on my road trip as I needed the mount to attach another camera however during the few months I ran it. It was flawless and will be going in my car permanently should my current camera fail. It checked all the boxes for performance.
The radio doesn’t get 1948 broadcasts? Are you sure it’s fixed?
What a nice car
Sweet ride. I can drive a Three-on-da -Tree. Learned and took My road test on a 70 F-100
Me I was just a kid. I learned how to change gears sitting between my parents in the front seat. Dad would push in the clutch and give me the nod to change the gears. I remember first had no synchro so had to be at a complete stop or it would grind. Then he got the 70 merc with the 4 on the floor. I had a pillow to sit on so I could work the gears. I fully learned to drive when I was perhaps 12 or so. My sister had a horse and I was always dragged to the stable every day while she rode and cleaned up. So boring. I started driving the car around the property. The stable was owned by family friends. Used to drive up and down driveway to back field and back. The day I turned 16 I was ready for my road test.
@@12voltvids I did the Same shifting with Dad in a Volkswagen Beetle on the back narrow Roads of the Netherlands.. 70 to 74
Taught my daughter to drive when she was 15 on back road. She too went and got her learner permit the day she turned 16. As did my son but he was a lazy ass and didn't want to learn to drive. Let his permit expire and started over at 23. He can drive now at 24 but can't take his first road test till November. Then has to wait 2 more years to get his full license.
I give him a bad time as he should have done this 8 years ago. He and all his dumb friends figured they didn't need a car or license and that he could just Uber where he needed to go. Would cost him about 60 a day to get to and from work on Uber. Gas about 8 a day.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but under any circumstance, would it be worth it to buy a 27” CRT through eBay and delivered via ground shipping like FedEx? Have you ever attempted to receive a larger 27” set this way? What was the experience like?
About 25 years ago I sold a 15" Conrac professional monitor. I got a whopping 50.00 for it which is what I paid for 3 of them (I still have 2 open frame models, the one I sold had the metal cabinet as it was a studio monitor that weighed about 80lbs.
I bought a crate and the buyer paid for the shipping crate and shipping coats which wee about 250 because of the size and weight. It went from Vancouver to PEI by ground. When it arrived the picture tube was just shards of glass. The guy wanted a refund for everything. I told him to file a claim with the carrier as I had it professionally packed by ups.
So no I wouldn't trust anything heavy and fragile like a CRT to be shipped. Infact if I were to buy something like that myself I would go pick it up personally and see it operating before I took possession but thats just me. I have had things sent in for repair and I have video evidence of the condition received and sent only to find they get damaged on the way back. Doesn't happen often, but it can and does happen.
Won me over. Should have rigged a Bluetooth kill switch. AM radio is extinct, not even oldies anymore. Beautiful vehicle!
Am is talk and news these days in these parts.
@@12voltvids still heaps down here in Australia. Tasmania's got 6 and 1s part chat part music and in Vic & NSW there heaps more, even when i scroll the AM during the night i can pick up the weak signals but can mostly get the regional Victorian stations and there's music back to back.
Quality
OMG on the radio, ONLY on RADIO!
"For those going to have a watch of Threads tonight, do you have any advice"?
"Well, er, you might want to have had a glass or two of beer to help you through it"
Nah, WINE! LOTS OF WINE! Trust me, I've watched it. Get so drunk you dont care, its the only way you'll make it through.
Absolutely, it's something of a cult classic here in the UK, but is definitely not for the faint of heart. I'm a bit of a nuke / cold war geek, so have been following the 40th anniversary closely and will definitely be watching when it's shown on BBC4 next month.
Did you hear Stalin talking on the radio? 😀
Does he take it to car shows?
Yes
Beautiful ride. They dont make them like they used too! Honestly I'd rather pay $40k for something like this over anything new.
This one would go for more than 40k.
Myself I would take new any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
@@12voltvids It is in immaculate condition with lots of options, $40-50k is what they go for around me down in the US, if you could find one for sale. But no doubt Al's Buick is very rare. I just really like the simplicity of older vehicles. I dont need all those automated features telling me how to drive and high costs for repairs/parts.
So 60k Canadian.
Then 5 miles per gallon to operate and it needs premium plus added lead. Or avgas
@@12voltvids I the car world, for a collector, $60k isnt bad. And I think you could drastically improve that 5 mpg with an engine rebuild and a few upgrades. Though something like this Buick I wouldnt want to drive daily but you could.
Did he say Renault Gordini? Yes !!!! 6:48
Yes he has one. Perhaps he will take me for a spin in that one and I'll bring the camera along.
Radio killed the video star
😃👏👏
2:04 just pull the steering wheel back to where it almost breaks just to release the parking brake 🙄